TY - BOOK AU - Korte,Anne-Marie TI - Women and miracle stories: a multidisciplinary exploration T2 - Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, SN - 9004136363 AV - BL487 .W65 2004 U1 - BL 487.W65 2004 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Leiden, Leiden PB - Brill KW - Miracles KW - Women KW - Religious life N1 - Originally published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2001; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Women and miracle stories: introduction / Anne-Marie Korte -- Magic, miracle and miracle workers in the Acts of Thecla / Magda Misset-van de Weg -- Fatherly and motherly curing in sixth-century Gaul: Saint Radegund's Mysterium / Giselle de Nie -- Women in Columba's life, as seen through the eyes of his biographer Adomnn / Jacqueline Borsje -- Fresh water for a tired soul: pregnancy and messianic desire in a mediaeval Jewish document from Sicily / Marcel Poorthuis & Chana Safrai -- The life of Christina Mirabilis: miracles and the construction of marginality / Anke E. Passenier -- In pain you shall bear children (Gen 3:16): medieval prayers for a safe delivery / Marianne Elsakkers -- A woman alone: the beatification of Friederike Hauffe ne Wanner (1801-1829) / Wouter J. Hanegraaff -- Mariyamman's á¹¢akti: the miraculous power of a smallpox goddess / Anne van Voorthuizen -- Women and miracles in the stories of Ingeborg Bachmann / Ilse N. Bulhof -- Miracles of desire: transfigurations in Rhoda Lerman's The book of the night / Inez van der Spek -- A different grace: epilogue / Anne-Marie Korte ER -